Ann Fisher- Wirth Translations by the 4W International Women Collective Translation Circle Photographs by Wilfried Raussert Note of the Author Sometimes the world seems turned upside down. So many beings, both human and other than human, long for freedom yet live in various kinds of cages. So many long for tenderness yet are pierced with …
Oana Alexan Katz En Otras cartas a Milena (2003), la escritora cubana Reina María Rodríguez retrata una constelación de intensidades emocionales, sensoriales y corporales emblemáticas de la nostalgia. Más allá de narrativizar la nostalgia en términos afectivos, se incorpora al registro afectivo en sus propias lecturas de otros textos para guiar la experiencia de sus …
Nicole Bonino In the face of an escalating climate crisis, the Latin American artistic community has emerged as a powerful catalyst for social awareness, advocacy, and resilience. In the context of Latin American eco-artivism, resilience refers to the ability of artists and communities to adapt and respond creatively to the climate crisis through art. Resilience …
Alec Armon In 1965, a representative from Wisconsin stood before residents of La Ligua, a town in Central Chile, to inaugurate a neighborhood that would bear the U.S. state’s name after it was rebuilt in the wake of an earthquake. According to the speaker, the newly constructed homes at Villa Wisconsin, as it was called, …
Pedro de Gonzales Duran Luego de la pandemia, el mundo se dio cuenta de lo vulnerable que es la humanidad, como conjunto. Aún hoy en día nos encontramos frente a amenazas latentes en nuestro planeta, con las que convivimos y sobre las cuales no sabemos tanto como nos gustaría creer. Por ejemplo, el brutal y …
Barbara Galindo The salt flats are increasingly being exploited as a source of minerals for so-called “green technologies” that are proposed as solutions to the climate crisis. These technologies include photovoltaic solar panels, wind turbines, and electric vehicle batteries, as well as those essential for global communication, transportation, medicine, and militarism (Klinger, 2017, p. 4). …
Beatriz Botero One of the biggest contemporary crises in Latin America is mental health. It is silent because it is not immediately visible and because it can be hidden. This is, for example, what anorexic people do, hiding their thinness behind loose clothing. Mental problems can be hidden to a point where they can no …
Carlos Arenas Almost every day the climate crisis reminds us that the adverse effects of climate change are not something that will happen in the future—they are already happening everywhere. On May 28th, 2024, the Guna indigenous community of Gardi Sugdub (Island of the Crab), in the semi-autonomous region of Gunayala, Panama, was finally able …
Rocío González-Espresati Clement Regina José Galindo (Guatemala, 1974-) es una poetisa y artista visual que utiliza el concepto de liminalidad de Ileana Diéguez como parte de sus obras activistas, pues su obra consiste en experiencias de crisis representadas directamente en su cuerpo. Esta artista visual guatemalteca aprovecha las oportunidades de teatralidad que presenta la vida …
Ligia Gonzalez Qué imágenes vienen a nuestra mente cuando pensamos en la “crisis migratoria”? ¿Qué patrones perceptivos generan y reproducen esas imágenes? ¿Cómo se visualiza y construye al sujeto migrante? En un mundo cada vez más digitalizado, han proliferado breves pero impactantes registros visuales en redes sociales como Tik Tok e Instagram, que revelan los …